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“There was just no decent literature, no history about people like me. And finally, in the 1970s the atmosphere was…

“It’s hard to joke your way out of spaces of physical violence that we’re seeing many people having to struggle…

Hurricane Maria scythed more than 3,000 souls on Puerto Rico, according to the official death toll. Among that number was…

Not only did Brown do heroic work in his original scholarship, but he escaped the insular world of academese and presented it in an accessible and appealing form. It’s a major accomplishment.

The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 86th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2021 recipients of the only…

I often failed at assimilation but learned all of the skills along the way through trial and error. Sometimes the people I wanted to assimilate with didn’t see me, but I still got the practice. I’m not saying it’s a positive thing. It just is. Therefore, I’m nobody, who are you? Yet, I’m also everybody.

Samuel R. Delany, a science fiction icon and pioneer in gay literature, began his childhood in the living quarters atop…

Deacon King Kong […] is robust and funny, confronting tragedy with an ebullient comic spirit, “pulling its punches” in unexpected ways that repudiate disaster and resound just right.

The year before I was old enough to drive, [my mother] let me practice steering the car on long stretches of empty highway. I’d reach across the center console and take the wheel, leaning into her, my back against her chest, following the arc of the sun west toward home.

All too often, African countries, African literatures, get thrown together and the differences between them are elided. What is Zambian…

What I was trying to do being hard of hearing, was to navigate the questions of: At which point is…

Lisa Nielson is an Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. She has a PhD in historical musicology, with…

You know what I found out about my teaching? My teaching made me much more human. Some of the ideas…

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is proud to present The Asterisk*, a new podcast hosted by Karen R. Long, manager of…

“When somebody told me that they had just seen the Confederate flag on TV being carried around the Capitol, my…

This lesson plan provides background information, discussion questions, key quotations and activities to help explore Kevin Young’s 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Award-winning…

Gabrielle Bychowski is an Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University, teaching courses on transgender and intersex history, disability culture,…

This lesson plan guides educators in teaching children’s books to young adult and adult learners. In addition to offering some…

Cara Byrne, PhD is a lecturer in English at Case Western Reserve University In her 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award…